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<blockquote data-quote="Enevhar Aldarion" data-source="post: 8475661" data-attributes="member: 6818233"><p>Since most fantasy RPGs are set in the equivalent of the 11th-15th centuries AD, what the definition was in the days of the ancient Greeks does not matter. What became the typical barbarian came about when the various barbarian tribes contributed to the end/destruction of the Roman Empire. Stories of those tribes were passed down over the centuries and they are the basis for most fantasy barbarian tribes/clans/etc. But for something more abstract, the more "civilized" societies/cultures have always considered the less "civilized" ones to be barbarians. And it does not have to be barbaric in the literal sense of violence, but just living conditions and the inability to become culturally advanced. Someone lives in a hut in the woods or a tent in the desert or a yurt on the steppes, instead of in a nice house in the city? They are barbarians. Where it can get into more racist thought is with the real-world discrimination of the poor and lower class within a culturally advanced society. Treating those people like barbarians is definitely a bad thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Enevhar Aldarion, post: 8475661, member: 6818233"] Since most fantasy RPGs are set in the equivalent of the 11th-15th centuries AD, what the definition was in the days of the ancient Greeks does not matter. What became the typical barbarian came about when the various barbarian tribes contributed to the end/destruction of the Roman Empire. Stories of those tribes were passed down over the centuries and they are the basis for most fantasy barbarian tribes/clans/etc. But for something more abstract, the more "civilized" societies/cultures have always considered the less "civilized" ones to be barbarians. And it does not have to be barbaric in the literal sense of violence, but just living conditions and the inability to become culturally advanced. Someone lives in a hut in the woods or a tent in the desert or a yurt on the steppes, instead of in a nice house in the city? They are barbarians. Where it can get into more racist thought is with the real-world discrimination of the poor and lower class within a culturally advanced society. Treating those people like barbarians is definitely a bad thing. [/QUOTE]
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